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panzerfaust

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28. To me it seems highly probable that

Wed May 8, 2013, 02:35 PM

May 2013

having more police cars on the road likely makes the roads safer, and may well decrease the over-all crime rate.

Depends upon the jurisdiction as to what the officer's responsibility for the car is. In some, if they take it home, they are expected to pay for all off-duty gas and for keeping it washed. In others, the department pays for all fuel and maintenance.

I a rural area in which I lived for several decades, as cops, like doctors, were never really off-duty having officers drive their cars home made their response times in emergencies much faster.

Either way, I think the public is getting its money's worth from this practice.

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